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- Lavo Ristorante heads to London from LA with its giant wagyu meatballs
Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.
The London restaurant will be part of the new
... - High Yaki is bringing staircase BBQs to Chinatown
6/6/23 - updated with the opening date
London's Chinatown has a lot of hot pot and DIY barbecue restaurants, but the owners of incoming restaurant High Yaki are hoping that they're bringing something a little new to the table. It's a barbecue restaurant, where you grill your own food at your table, but the presentation is going to be a little different.
The restaurant will offer a range of beef cuts -
... - Café Pier takes over the old cabmen's shelter on Chelsea Embankment
Dotted around the city, cabmen's shelters are a living piece of London's history, dating back to the late Victorian era when cabbies needed somewhere warm to sit and grab a bacon sarnie and a cup of tea. There are still 12 working shelters left in London, with access to those strictly reserved for London's black cab licence holders. But one recently restored shelter in Chelsea is about to open its doors to all
... - Fazenda is bringing its rodizio grill restaurant to London
5/6/23 - Updated with the opening date
Following restaurants like Six by Nico and Mowgli, another
... - Alexis Gauthier is opening Studio Gauthier and 123V Bakery in Fitzrovia
5/6/23 - updated with the opening dates
Chef Alexis Gauthier is bringing not one, but two new restaurants to Fitzrovia. Much like his existing places, Gauthier Soho and 123V (inside Fenwick's), each will be championing vegan food. They're both within the BFI Stephen Street building in Soho - a space that will be split into two.
Up front will be 123V
... - Hong Kong's 'most chocolatey' chocolate cake creators 404 Bakery have arrived in London
We do enjoy a bit of culinary grandstanding here at Hot Dinners and when someone arrives in this city promising to serve up the best chocolate cake we've ever had in our lives then we sit up and take note.
404 Bakery comes from a couple of Hong Kong bakers who took their home city by storm when they set up an online bakery driven by their obsession with chocolate cakes. However the bakery had to close when they decided,
... - Yannick Alléno is opening Pavyllon London at the Four Seasons on Park Lane
Updated 2/6/23 with the opening date
After a while, all roads lead to London. Chefs across the globe may open their multi-Michelin-starred restaurants wherever they choose, but it does appear that to be considered a truly global culinary star, they need to have a London outpost to cement their reputation. In recent years we've had Scandinavian giants Niklas Ekstedt and Björn
... - Lina Stores are bringing their pasta to Clapham
2/6/23 - updated with the opening date
If you've been wondering what was going to take the place of the old site of St Clair in Clapham, wonder no more - it's going to be the latest opening by Lina Stores.
This outpost is being billed as a neighbourhood restaurant, so you're not going to get the deli add-on that some of the other Lina Stores have. Instead, it's an Italian restaurant
... - El Pollote are bringing their Latino fried chicken to Carnaby
You'll probably know them from various Kerb markets, including Seven Dials, but now the Venezuelan team behind El Pollote are getting ready to open their first standalone restaurant. They'll be opening up in the heart of Carnaby on Ganton Street in a space big enough for 40 diners which will also have room for a small terrace too.
If you haven't had the pleasure, El Pollote has built up a reputation for using the best
... - The big new London restaurants opening in June 2023
As we hit Summer, the new restaurant scene really starts to heat up, with some big new openings coming this month. Here's your guide to the best of what's coming in June.
- Kachori comes to Elephant Park with an ex-Gymkhana head chef
2/6/23 - updated with the opening date
Kachori is a new restaurant coming to Elephant Park that looks rather promising.
The restaurant takes its influences from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Punjab. Here's a taste of what to expect, the menu features everything from street food-inspired creations and burgers through to larger sharing
... - Larry's Bar will be an underground cocktail bar at the National Portrait Gallery
When the National Portrait Gallery reopens this summer after a three-year renovation we were expecting it to feature a rooftop restaurant by Richard Corrigan and a ground floor cafe by the folk at Daisy Green. What we didn't know, until now, was that the Daisy Green team have
... - Previewing Cantinetta Antinori - luxe yet cosy Italian in Knightsbridge
Cantinetta Antinori arrives in Knightsbridge as a joint venture between a global restaurant group and a top Italian winemaker. We popped in to check it out in a recent preview dinner.
- Broken Eggs is London's first tortilla restaurant
London's already got a restaurant devoted to croquetas, so perhaps it isn't surprising that someone's now decided to open a Spanish restaurant specialising in tortilla.
Siblings Gabriel and Marta are the brains behind Broken Eggs which has been doing delivery for the past year. Now they're getting
... - Revamped pub the Earl of Derby and Gengelly's are coming to New Cross
With lots of news about pubs closing, it's always good news to hear of those getting a little more love. From Telegraph Hill, New Cross, news reaches us of such a promising pub overhaul.
The Earl of Derby is getting a proper restoration by a team who are looking to bring it back to its Victorian finest. The pub has been taken over by Parched, an independent group that also
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